A Short Summary

Regional Dialogue Forum Airport Frankfurt
法兰克福机场的区域对话论坛
Dr. Hans-Peter Meister, Christopher Gohl
Historical Development
Airports are where globalization comes home – with good economic and bad environmentaland health effects. These effects need to be balanced.
At Frankfurt Airport, when a third runway was builtand opened in 1984, mass protests clashed with strong police forces. The resistance movement abruptly died when twopolicemen were killed by snipers at a rally in 1987.
In 1998, plans for a fourth runway were made public. Fearful of a renewed conflict, the stategovernment immediately convened a round table, and installed a mediation process. Its 21participants, representative of the region, the aviation business and the Hesse stateadministration, were asked to answer the question how to balance the desire for growth bythe airport with environmental and health concerns.
In January 2000, the mediation grouprecommended a package of five complementary components:
(1)New capacity through new runway / extension
(2)Capacity Optimization of theexisting system
(3)ban on night time flightsbetween 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
(4)Anti-Noise-Pact
(5)'Regional Forum for Dialogue' (RDF)
InJune of 2000, five months after the end of the mediation, the Hesse state government launched the RDF with a resolution that set out the details of its organization. The RDF wasconceived as a mediative participation procedure and was given four objectives:
(1)Understanding through Dialogue,
(2)Rationalization through Information and ScientificResearch,
(3)Counseling the Formal Planning procedures and Politicians, and
(4)Guardianand Modeler of the Mediation.
All four objectives required different and complementary formsand instruments of dialogue. Results
The general historic merit of the RDF was that decades old patterns of conflict weretransformed into structures of dialogue and cooperation. Understanding through Dialogueproved to be a long and laborious process.
That was no small achievement given the fact that in doubt, all actors put theirown interests above the interests of the mediation, and interpreted it accordingly.
On the whole, the RDF never really rose up to the challenge of advising the administrationand politicians effectively through consensus. The dialogue proved to besuccessful enough to be continued, and reflective enough to self-correct.
Learning
A mediative stakeholder process proved to be useful in transforming a long-lasting regionalconflict into an opportunity for real progress for stakeholders –less noise, controlledecological and social effects, and economic growth. The biggest challenge was theparallelism of the informal process to the formal planning procedures. In the course of that,stakeholders defined their long-term strategies in legal terms, and put their hope andresources behind the formal process. In effect, that complicated their readiness to partake ina meaningful negotiation, and their ability to prepare their own groups for positive resultsthrough informal dialogue.
历史发展
机场的全球化影响当地-带来好的经济发展和恶劣的环境及健康问题，这些影响需要被平衡。

在法兰克福机场，1984年第三条跑道建成开放时，大规模抗议活动与强大的警察部队发生冲突。

1987年两名警员在一场集会上被狙击手杀死，抵抗运动才停止。

1998年，第四条跑道的计划公开。

担心再次发生冲突，黑森州政府立即召开圆桌会议，并配置了调解程序（a mediation process）。

21名参加者，包括地区，航空业和黑森州政府的代表，需要回答如何平衡扩大机场的愿望和降低对环境健康影响的问题。

2000年1月，调节员小组提出了5个互补的主张：
（1）通过新的跑道/扩展产能
（2）优化系统运营能力
（3）禁止夜间飞行：晚上11点-上午5时
（4）抗噪声条约
（5）“区域对话论坛”（RDF）
2000年6月，在调停结束五个月后，州政府发表了一份决议，建立了RDF并列明了组织细节。

RDF被认为是一种调解程序，包括四个目标：
（1）通过对话增进理解
（2）通过信息科学研究，使决策更合理化，
（3）为正式的规划程序和政治人士提供咨询建议，以及
（4）作为调解程序的守护者和楷模。

所有四个目标都需要通过不同形式的对话来完成。

结果
RDF的方式作为非正式的调解程序很成功。

RDF的一般历史价值在于，几十年前的冲突形式转变为对话与合作的结构。

通过对话而达成理解，是一个漫长而艰苦的过程。

这并不是个小成就，因为所有行为者都可能将自己的利益置于调解的利益之上。

总的来说，RDF从来没有真正地提出了通过协商一致有效地向政府和政治人士提供意见的挑战。

对话被证明是成功的，足以继续下去，促进自我纠正。

经验
调解程序被证明有助于将长期持续的区域冲突转变为利益相关者真正进步的机会–实现减少噪音，控制生态和社会影响以及经济增长。

最大的挑战是非正式过程与正式规划程序的并行。

本例，利益相关方以法律规定了长期战略，并且把调节方目标和资源放在正式程序的
背后。

这表明，他们准备好了参与协商，有能力通过非正式对话获取自己团队的利益。